quotes about Live Your Own Life

“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books

“She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.”

“A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.”

“We become overly reliant on the strengths that got us where we are today. We also become isolated as we move up in the organization. Unless we have the benefit of assessment, and unless we invite feedback on our leadership, we continue to lean on strengths that can actually work against us, and fail to expand our leadership style in a way that makes us more effective.”

“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”

“To go faster you must slow down.”

“How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?”

“It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.”

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”

“What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.”

Source : "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.